Arunachal Pradesh
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Arunachal Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India and is the northeastern-most state of the country. Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east and is separated from China in the north by the disputed McMahon Line. Itanagar is the capital of the state. A major part of the state is claimed by the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China referring to it as "South Tibet". Its official language is English. Its current Governor is Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, its current Chief Minister is Pema Khandu, and its State Legislature is currently controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance.
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- Curled beneath the eastern ramparts of the Himalayas broods a wild land of unnamed peaks and unexplored forests: the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The largest and least populous of the Seven Sisters – septet of states that make up India's turbulent, tribal Northeast – it lies folded between the Tibetan plateau, the steaming jungles of Burma, the mountains of Bhutan and the flood-prone plains of the Brahmaputra Valley. Remote, mountainous and forbidding, here shamans still fly through the night, hidden valleys conceal portals to other worlds, yetis leave footprints in the snow, spirits and demons abound, and the gods are appeased by the blood of sacrificed beasts. More tribes live here, and more languages are spoken, than anywhere else in South Asia. A goldmine of flora and fauna, its unparalleled altitudinal range provides sanctuary to a fabulous array of exotic and alarming creatures. Snow leopards prowl along frozen ridges. Royal Bengal tigers pad through the jungle. Burmese rock pythons slither through the loam.
- Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (15 June 2017). Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: A Journey across Arunachal Pradesh - India's Forgotten Frontier. Simon & Schuster UK. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4711-5657-1.
- Thanks to Indian democracy, all Buddhist monasteries in Arunachal Pradesh are preserved.
- Dalai Lama, quoted from François Gautier - Les mots du dernier Dalaï-lama (2018, Flammarion)
